Sweaty Peter Thiel is definitely going to be the name of our next drink special. "Sweaty Peter Thiel Mocked for Incoherent Answer About CEO Slaying." Thiel, drenched in sweat, struggled to form a coherent response, pausing for over 10 seconds before beginning to speak. Piers Morgan asked Antichrist ...
“I still think you should try to make an argument, and I think this is—there may be things wrong with our healthcare system, but you have to make an argument, and you have to try to find a way to convince people and change it by that,” Thiel eventually said.
He lost his composure but I think this is actually a good point. Everybody is talking about how cathartic it is that this happened, and how this guy deserved it, but not a lot of real consideration how this could actually get us sane healthcare.
I can think of two major healthcare concessions that have been made since. Now, whether they were forgone conclusions, I cannot say. But, it sure is cathartic seeing all these scared billionaires trying to talk their way out of why the killings shouldn’t continue until healthcare improves.
I think after 30 Plus years of struggling the "right way" and failing all while hundreds of thousands of us die has made us all a little willing to try a new way. If it fails also then oh well no harm done. At least to no one we're not willing to lose.
It sure seems to be working to me. They are afraid at the people they've been hurting, the lack of which was certainly part of the problem. And we're having all this dialogue around it.
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of US$11.2 billion and was ranked 212th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Huh I never knew anything about him except he supported stuff to make society worse and was a billionaire, yeah I repeat myself. I thought he'd be older like a Koch for some reason.
If the Tolkien estate has a trademark on that word it doesn’t stop a company in an entirely different field to name their company that word. Owning a trademark doesn’t mean you own all the usage rights of that word. You only have the rights in a specific category.
We tried every form of peaceful protest. They make protest illegal. They wouldn’t listen. The fact of the matter is we’re in a fight for the very survival of humanity and these people want to drive us all off a cliff.
You know, it doesn't even take 5 more CEOs being blue shelled to really scare them.
It really only takes 1 more, but that person happens to be a member of the security firm they hire to protect them.
At that point, the paranoia would eat them up way more than any future violence ever could, because it'd be impossible for them to feel safe with money.
Thiel has a bunker in NZ that he plans to retreat to if "shit hits the fan".
How hard would it be to convince him to bug out and seal himself up in that place, cutting off all communications? Obviously, I'd prefer if he were dead, but sealed up in a hole in the ground terrified about what's happening in the outside world would be an acceptable compromise.
They’re absolute fools to think they can survive long in a bunker.
The only solution to survival is building community - a sustainable socialist society where people work together to live good lives and take of each other and our planet.
These absolute fools think they can turn the world to ash and go live in a concrete prison underground. Then emerge when? To what kind of existence?
If shit really hits the fan the first thing we’ll do is go after the bunkers and space ships.
Yeah, Douglas Rushkoff has a book about that, Survival of the Richest. For some reason, billionaires consulted him about their "shit hits the fan" plans, and he laughed at them and wrote a book about it. They had all these elaborate fantasies about how they were going to keep their security team loyal after civilization collapsed, or about how they'd avoid having any humans working for them and use robots instead. But, they hadn't even thought about the most basic things.
Like, one guy had an underground bunker complete with a swimming pool (or at least plans for one). Rushkoff said to the guy that his neighbor had a pool and frequently had contractors over to clean it, or replace parts, etc. He asked what the guy was going to do about basic pool maintenance. The guy got out a notepad and wrote "get replacement parts for the pool" or something. He basically hadn't even thought 1 step beyond the initial idea.
You're right that the best plan for an apocalyptic scenario is to have useful skills that other people will appreciate, so that you can be a valuable, contributing member of their community. And no, billionaire CEOs, "leadership skills" don't count. Or, if they do, the leaders will either be strongmen who are personally very comfortable with using violence to ensure everyone falls in line, or they'll be very empathetic people who resolve disputes and make sure everyone works in harmony. It won't be people who make "cut-throat decisions" but who faint at the sight of actual blood.
That's really hard to watch. Def. not ok. If I was standing next to a person who was acting, talking like that I would be wondering what's really going on here. If it was someone I knew, cared about, I'd be thinking of questions to draw out what got him to that state. And how to walk him back to normal. I've never heard Thiel speak before, is he always like that? Weird.
I don’t know much about Ketamine other than it is Elon’s drug of choice. But I know Elon and Thiel are in cahoots since forever. Is this a WAY too much Ketamine symptom? Bro couldn’t form a sentence.
It would be great if this dude just destroys his liver or kidneys with whatever ghoulish, experimental life extension treatments he's constantly trying...
And I mean like in a way that makes it so they can't just replace them. What a wonderful Christmas gift that would be.
the effects of drugs or alcohol (and the withdrawal/sleep deprivation from them) can cause the conditions we see on screen. Stroke is not likely, as he was not hospitalized.
Is someone holding a gun to his head just offscreen? Dude legit looks like he thinks if he says the wrong thing, he'll be "adjusted" right there on camera.
Even Peter Thiel is like "Well, you can't murder Brian Thompson from a virtue ethics point of view. But the world is better off without him so from a utilitarian perspective it was a good thing to do. Can't say that, can I? What can I say?"